Tweeter - My "friend" pushed it in...

Get a hair dryer. Blow dry the blu tac until it is reeally sticky then push a blob onto the tweeter. Then blow dry it cool or leave it to set. Then pull it slowly backwards until it has popped back into position or whatever. Then reblowdry to get most of it off and then let the remnants dry again and dab them off with cold bluetac.


Hope it helps.

I just had this idea because i accidently lefts blutac on the side of my chair and a fanheater melted it on :P

Regards.
 
If and when you do fix it......put your baffles back on. It might not look as good, but it provides protection both from children and those with a child-like intellect.
 
My nephew did the same to my dome tweeter and I did as mentioned above, used the hoover hose but created a "silencer" like attachment with my hands so the hose edge didn't latch to the dome and quickly whisked it around the dome until it popped back out!
 
Whatis the cone made of ?

plastic or metal ?


if it is metal it is very very difficult, plastic is a bit easier though.


Id reccomend getting some silicone hose i.e what you use for fuel tubing on RC planes and cars.

suck it with your mouth.

its soft, so should find the surface easy enough.


pics would help...
 
MikeHunt79 said:
If you do change tweeters, some say it's best to do both at the same time...
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my understanding is that this is only necessary on high end speakers with matched tweeters. 600 series arent going to be matched - neither my P4's or CM series were. so it shouldnt make any difference if you replace just one.

same thing happened on my P4 and it was £22 for the part.
 
UPDATE.

I rang up the shop where i got them from and he said a new tweeter would be needed. He said it would cost 30-50 and also confirmed that the tweeter is metal, not plastic which explains quite a bit. He assumed a child had done it until i revealed it was a University flatmate.

I also asked "James" about why my speakers seem to make a vibrating noise when i go 1/3 of the way round on the volume (100% on the laptop, max bass/treble) and he said it was simply because i was pushing it too far..makes sense? I asked if a new Amp would be needed instead (Current NAD C320BEE) but he suggested new speakers would help..as he put it, i had outgrown them already. I asked about whether i'd need to change BOTH the tweeters but as my speakers are quite new, he said it should be fine.

Does that make any sense? Thoughts/opinions?

I will take a picture also tonight...and the picture in my first post is just an example, NOT my speakers specifically. :p
 
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You're artificially inflating both bass and treble which is a bad thing as a lot of distortion will creep in.
 
You're only using a 50W amp so you should be able to get it louder than that. 685s will quite easily go very loud with no trouble at all - mine do! I think your problem is the max bass/treble...eww, why would you do that :(
 
Instead of using bass/treble controls hit the tone defeat button if you have one and enjoy unaltered music as it was meant to be heard :D
 
some tweeters can be rebuild, so you can take them apart, pop the "dome" out from the inside and reassemble. Saves you £50, so see if it can be done first. Not all tweeters can do it, so don't force anything, worst case you need a new tweeter which is hardly a setback.

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TomO said:
my understanding is that this is only necessary on high end speakers with matched tweeters. 600 series arent going to be matched - neither my P4's or CM series were. so it shouldnt make any difference if you replace just one.

same thing happened on my P4 and it was £22 for the part.
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Ahh, ok. I haven't a clue what speakers they are, or weather they cost £20 or £20000....

I'd just go for the one then in that case... The tweeter might sound little different when it's new, but it should sound better after many hours of use. :)

Also, if you are clipping your amp, this can blow tweeters... I'd upgrade your amp if you want more volume.
 
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